“Cocaine” Drink Trademark Fizzles

Law360, New York (December 18, 2006, 12:00 AM EST) -- A group of law students may have thwarted "Cocaine" from hitting convenience store shelves nationwide after a trademark-examining attorney asked for a remand for refusal to grant a federal trademark for the controversial energy drink.

The group of five Cleveland State University law students, representing Americans for Drug Free Youth and the Progressive Intellectual Property Law Association, filed an opposition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Oct. 10, arguing that the application for a federal trademark for the Cocaine energy drink produced by Redux...